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2 Chronicles 35:10

So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Josiah;   Levites;   Liberality;   Passover;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Levite;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Apocrypha;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Priest, Priesthood;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Josiah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Levites;   Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Service;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Preparation ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Josiah ;   Ox, Oxen;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Josiah;   Place;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
Hebrew Names Version
So the service was prepared, and the Kohanim stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's mitzvah.
King James Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
English Standard Version
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
New Century Version
When everything was ready for the Passover service, the priests and Levites went to their places, as the king had commanded.
New English Translation
Preparations were made, and the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions as prescribed by the king.
Amplified Bible
When the service was ready, the priests stood in their [assigned] places and the Levites by their divisions, in accordance with the king's command.
New American Standard Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their positions and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.
World English Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stoode in their places, also the Leuites in their orders, according to the Kings commandement:
Legacy Standard Bible
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's commandment.
Berean Standard Bible
So the service was prepared; the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
Contemporary English Version
When everything was ready to celebrate Passover, the priests and the Levites stood where Josiah had told them.
Complete Jewish Bible
So the service was prepared; the cohanim stood at their posts; and the L'vi'im worked in their divisions, in keeping with the king's order.
Darby Translation
And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's commandment.
Easy-to-Read Version
When everything was ready for the Passover service to begin, the priests and Levites went to their places. This is what the king commanded.
George Lamsa Translation
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places and the Levites in their courses,
Good News Translation
When everything was arranged for the Passover, the priests and the Levites took their posts, as commanded by the king.
Lexham English Bible
And when the work had been completed, the priests stood at their positions and the Levites in their working groups according to the command of the king.
Literal Translation
And the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the command of the king.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus was the Gods seruyce prepared, and the prestes stode in their place, and the Leuites in their courses acordinge to the kynges commaundement.
American Standard Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so the seruice was prepared, and the priestes stoode in their places, & the Leuites in their distinct companies, at the kinges commaundement:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
King James Version (1611)
So the seruice was prepared, and the Priests stood in their place, and the Leuites in their courses, according to the kings commandement.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the service was duly ordered, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the command of the king.
English Revised Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king’s commandment.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the seruyce was maad redi; and preestis stoden in her office, and dekenes in cumpenyes, bi comaundement of the kyng; and pask was offrid.
Update Bible Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites by their courses, according to the king's commandment.
Webster's Bible Translation
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king's commandment.
New King James Version
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their divisions, according to the king's command.
New Living Translation
When everything was ready for the Passover celebration, the priests and the Levites took their places, organized by their divisions, as the king had commanded.
New Life Bible
So everything was made ready for the Passover. The religious leaders stood in their places, and the Levites stood by their groups, as the king had told them.
New Revised Standard
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus was the service prepared, - and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the commandment of the king.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ministry was prepared, and the priests stood in their office: the Levites also in their companies, according to the king’s commandment.
Revised Standard Version
When the service had been prepared for, the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their divisions according to the king's command.
Young's Literal Translation
And the service is prepared, and the priests stand on their station, and the Levites on their courses, according to the command of the king,
THE MESSAGE
Preparations were complete for the service of worship; the priests took up their positions and the Levites were at their posts as instructed by the king. They killed the Passover lambs, and while the priests sprinkled the blood from the lambs, the Levites skinned them out. Then they set aside the Whole-Burnt-Offering for presentation to the family groupings of the people so that each group could offer it to God following the instructions in the Book of Moses. They did the same with the cattle. They roasted the Passover lamb according to the instructions and boiled the consecrated offerings in pots and kettles and pans and promptly served the people.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the service was prepared, and the priests stood at their stations and the Levites by their divisions according to the king's command.

Contextual Overview

1 And Josiah kept a Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem; on the fourteenth day of the first month they put the Passover lamb to death. 2 And he gave the priests their places, making them strong for the work of the house of God. 3 And he said to the Levites, the teachers of all Israel, who were holy to the Lord, See, the holy ark is in the house which Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel, made; it will no longer have to be transported on your backs: now be the servants of the Lord your God and his people Israel, 4 And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son; 5 And take your positions in the holy place, grouped in the families of your brothers, the children of the people, and for every division let there be a part of a family of the Levites. 6 And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done. 7 And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property. 8 And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundred oxen. 9 And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen. 10 So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests: 2 Chronicles 35:4, 2 Chronicles 35:5, 2 Chronicles 30:16, Ezra 6:18

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 23:6 - divided 2 Chronicles 8:14 - the Levites Ezekiel 44:11 - shall slay Matthew 26:19 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 17:5
No longer will your name be Abram, but Abraham, for I have made you the father of a number of nations.
Genesis 17:15
And God said, As for Sarai, your wife, from now her name will be not Sarai, but Sarah.
Genesis 35:27
And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.
Genesis 35:28
And Isaac was a hundred and eighty years old.
1 Kings 18:31
And Elijah took twelve stones, the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the Lord had said, Israel will be your name:
2 Kings 17:34
So to this day they go on in their old ways, not worshipping the Lord or keeping his orders or his ways or the law and the rule which the Lord gave to the children of Jacob, to whom he gave the name Israel;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the service was prepared,.... Every thing was got ready both for the passover and the feast of unleavened bread, for all sorts of people, rich and poor:

and the priests stood in their place; in their court near the altar, to sprinkle the blood of the sacrifices about it, as in the following verse:

and the Levites in their courses; whose turn it was to officiate:

according to the king's commandment, 2 Chronicles 35:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal references and note.

2 Chronicles 35:8

His princes - i. e. his ecclesiastical princes, the chief men of the priests and Levites. For the poor families of their own order the leading priests furnished both Passover-cattle and cattle for thank-offerings. The chief Levites acted similarly toward the poor Levitical families.


 
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